Improvement in cheese-turning apparatus



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UNITED STATES PATENT ,OEEIGE.

JOHN Q. BLACK, OF RICHLAND CENTRE, VVISGONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT lN CHEESE-TURNING APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 112,112, dated February28, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN Q. BLACK, of Richland Centre, in the county ofRichland and State of Wisconsin, have invented anew and usefulImprovement inGheeseSet; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and eXact description thereof, which will enable othersskilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, in which-Figure l represents a plan or top view, partly in section, of myimproved cheese-set.

' Fig. 2 is a vertical central section of the same.

Fig. 3 is a detail top view of two cheese-blocks, turned aside. Fig. 4is a detail side view of the same, showing the cheese, in dotted lines,as `being passed from one block to the other.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspending parts.

This invention relates to a new cheese-set, which is so constructed thata suitable number of cakes can be held and simultaneously turned on thesame.

The invention consists, chiefly, in the application of a number ofblocks, for holding the cheese, to one single turn-table and shaft, sothat thereby all blocks may be turned at once.

The invention also consists in providing the said blocks with projectingfingers, whereby they are made to transfer the cakes of cheese from oneto another whenever they are oscillated by means of the turn-table.

The invention also consists in the use of a removable handling-lever andlock-pin, whereby the apparatus can be moved and secured, as desired.

A in the drawing represents a vertical shaft, secured in a suitableframe, B, so that it cannot be turned therein. The shaft A carries alarge toothed wheel, C, which rests upon a shoulder, a, of the shaft,and can turn loose on the same, a sleeve, Z1, on said wheel fittingaround part of the shaft, as shown. D is a turntable, resting on thewheel C, but clear ofthe toothed portion of the same. rlhe turntable isalso loose on the shaft A. In. ears c c, which project from the face ofthe turntable, is hung a series of shafts, E E, which are radial to themain shaft A and carry pinions cl d, or toothed segments, that mesh intothe teeth of the wheel C. The outer end of each shaft E carries acylindrical block, F, large enough to support a cake of cheese on one ofits ends. The blocks F F are, preferably, made of wood and lined withmetal, but may be of other suitable construction. From the respectiveends of each block F project two or more wire fingers, c c and f f,which are entirely disposed on one side of that diameter of the samewhich is drawn as a continuation of the axis E. This distribution of thefingers e and f is, furthermore, such that the fingers e at one end areon the same side 0f the said diameter on which the fingers j' areapplied to the other end.

The shafts E are set so far apart, and the fingers ef of such length,that when the blocks F are turned, as in Fig. 3, to bring the fm gerinto horizontal positions, those of two adjoining blocks will cross eachother, as shown. When the blocks are all so placed that the fingers eproject upwardly and the fingers j' downwardly, the cakes of cheese areplaced upon the same. When the cakes of cheese are to be reversed theturn-table is moved on the shaft A, while the wheel C remainsstationary. By the motion of the turn-table all the shafts E, rolling onC, will be turned toward that side from which the fingers e project, andwill thereby gradually transfer the weight of the cheese to said fingerse untilthe same are in a horizontal position, as in Fig. 4. In thisposition the fingers f of the adjoining blocks have arrived in line withe, and as, during a continuance of the said movement, the fingers f moveupwardly and c downwardly, the cheese will be transferred to j', andelevated by the same to the adjoining block and gradually placed uponthe end lof the same. In this new position the cheese has beenreversed-that is to say, the face on which it rested before is broughtto the top and exposed to the air. The direction of movement justdescribed is indicated by arrows in Fig. 4.

To transfer the cheese again to the first position, and thereby turn itover, the motion is reversed to lower the cakes on the fingers f, andthen re-elevate them on the fingers c of the adjoining blocks. Thus asimultaneous reversion of all the calves of cheese by a single nnovementof the turn-table is effected. Considerable labor is thereby saved, incomparison with the method now in use, and still more room for keepingthe cheese, as by my plan about one thousand cakes can be set in a spaceno larger than that hitherto required for th ree hundred.

For moving the turn-table I prefer to use a lever, Gr, having a joint,g, near its inner end. This lever is fitted through a slotted ear, h, ofthe turn table, and its jointed inner part through an aperture of thesleeve b in to a socket provided in the shaft A. When the lever isturned it swings on its joint and carries the turn-table along, holding,at the same time, by means of its inner part in the sleeve, thegear-Wheel() stationary.

When the cheese has been set, a pin, i, is fitted through turn-table andgearwvheel to lock the parts in the desired position. The wheel can now,together with the turn-table, be revolved on the sha-ft to let eachcheese Having thus described my invention, I claim and reversing thecheese and transferring it4 from one to another, as specified.

3. The jointed lever G, combined With the turn-table l), gear-Wheel G,and shaft A, to operate substantially asherein shown and described.

4. The locking-pine', arranged in combination with the disks G D andshaft A, substantially4 as and for the purpose herein shown anddescribed.

JOHNQ. BLACK. Witnesses:

DANL. O. PICKARD, O. F. BLACK.

